URLs with underscores

Jon Hart jhart at starrtechmail.com
Wed Jul 6 20:24:37 EDT 2005


Jonathan Barrett wrote:


> Interestingly, whenever I've explained Markdown-like syntax to a

> layperson, they don't understand why _this_ is italicised and not

> underlined.



Irrespective of actual reasons, thunderbird underlines it.
IMHO, using underscore for emphasis is _programmer_ intuitive.

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